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In IE<=11: Switching to NWE from VE fails
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Description

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open a page in IE11, using VisualEditor.
  2. Click the "switch to source editing" button in the toolbar or the "edit source" tab.
  3. Observe a brief flash of the switching progress bar, then nothing.

Console contains:

SCRIPT5007: Unable to get property 'blur' of undefined or null reference
ve.ce.Surface.js (520,2)

This is an attempt to call:

this.getElementDocument().activeElement.blur();

Event Timeline

Change 328700 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch):
ce.Surface: in blur, make sure activeElement exists before blurring it

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/328700

Change 328700 merged by jenkins-bot:
ce.Surface: in blur, make sure activeElement exists before blurring it

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/328700

Change 330226 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester):
Update VE core submodule to master (da4a0b5)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/330226

Change 330226 merged by jenkins-bot:
Update VE core submodule to master (da4a0b5)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/330226

Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to TR1: Releases on the VisualEditor board.
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